Impact is the world's top gathering of corporate innovation, strategy, emerging tech, and R&D leaders in big organizations.
What Will You Get Out of It?
Our next Impact conference takes place in Silicon Valley. We're designing it to be smaller than in the past (limited to 200 participants), and focused on four benefits:
- Core innovation best practices: Learn from other corporates what is working
- Emerging technologies and new experiments: Get a glimpse of how corporates and startups are prototyping the future
- Professional development: Build new skills that will help you advance your career
- One-to-one meetings with other participants and Impact sponsors: Get input and advice on your biggest agenda items.
We know your time is precious. The time you spend at Impact will help you and your team learn from the best, deliver bigger results, spark new partnerships, and grow your network.
Who You’ll Meet
This event is designed for current corporate leaders in innovation, strategy, design, emerging technology, R&D, and new product development roles. Speakers at past Impact gatherings have included senior executives from Google, General Mills, Lyft, Kickstarter, Williams-Sonoma, IBM, Bose, Converse, Citi, Samsung, Tiffany & Co., Ford, Hain Celestial, Ralph Lauren, Kellogg's, Walmart, NASA, Harvard Business Review, and more. If you need to deliver tangible impact in your organization in the year ahead, please don’t miss Impact.
What to Expect
In addition to fireside chats, workshops, and case studies, you’ll be invited to participate in pre-event activities and cocktail receptions, as well as breakouts full of opportunities to participate and pose your questions. Impact will also give you the chance to schedule 1-on-1 meetings with other participants, speakers, and sponsors.
Reserve Your Spot at Impact Silicon Valley, Nov 2 + 3 — Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing!
Impact Silicon Valley takes place November 2 + 3, 2022, with some optional pre-event activities starting on November 1st at 2 PM. Tickets below offer full participation in our Silicon Valley event to current corporate innovation, R&D, strategy, emerging tech, and new product development professionals at all levels (working in for profit, non profit/NGO, and government entities). We reserve the right to refund registrations of individuals who do not fit that profile.
If you already have a ticket and have questions, please contact events@innovationleader.com.
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Event FAQs
Who comes to this event?
Impact is designed expressly for corporate innovation, strategy, emerging tech, and R&D professionals. That’s everyone from Chief Innovation Officers and VPs of Innovation, to Directors of Innovation and R&D Managers. If you’re responsible for new products or services inside your company, you’re probably the right fit. If you're in professional services, advisory, training, or innovation software, please inquire about sponsorship.
Where does Impact take place?
We are hosting this year's in-person conferences in New York and San Jose, California. Impact@NYC is taking place at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn.
What is your COVID-19 policy?
We will announce our COVID-19 policies for Impact Silicon Valley by October 2022, based on guidance from state and local officials.
Can I get a refund?
If you are unable to attend the event for health reasons, or your plans change, we are happy to transfer your ticket to a colleague or shift it to our next in-person event. If the event is cancelled due to public health reasons, we will offer you the option of a refund or transferring your registration to our next in-person event, or an online event that is held instead of the in-person event. If you need to transfer your registration to a colleague, please let us know at least 24 hours before the event begins by emailing events@innovationleader.com so we have the new participant's contact info.
What is the code of conduct at your events?
We are dedicated to creating a professional, safe, welcoming, and harassment-free environment for all our attendees. Please see our complete code of conduct here.
Will you bore me with PowerPoints?
No. We're intentionally light on slides at our in-person events in favor of interactive exercises, easel pads, Post-It Notes, Play-doh, and whiteboards. Some speakers do use slides or visuals at our virtual events to make their practices and ideas more concrete.
Will the media be there?
No. All our sessions are confidential and designed for the benefit of participants.
What is InnoLead?
If you’re working to make change happen inside a large organization, InnoLead was created especially for you.
We create downloadable templates and tools; report on what the world’s best companies are doing; and convene your peers to share best practices, in conference calls, webcasts, and at live events. Everything we do is geared to helping you deliver impact in your organization, whether you work in strategy, R&D, new ventures, design, technology, or innovation.
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Hotel and travel information
Hayes Mansion (Curio Collection by Hilton)
200 Edenvale Avenue
San Jose, CA 95136
Reserve your room
(408) 226-3200
Hotel: Impact Silicon Valley will take place at the historic Hayes Mansion in San Jose, Calif. We'll also organize several off-site activities in the area. Please book your room using this link to access our special discounted lodging rates ($239/night).
Arrival & Departure: We recommend arriving by mid-day on November 1st, as we’ll have pre-conference activities and optional programming starting later that afternoon around 2 PM. November 2nd and 3rd are two full days of content and activities. The program will wrap by 4 PM on Thursday, November 3rd.
Room block: We have negotiated special rates ($239/night) for Impact participants staying at the Hayes Mansion. Access those rates here. Please note that rooms at this rate are limited in quantity, so we recommend booking when you register for the event.
Closest Airports: Norman Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is about 20-25 minutes from the conference venue. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is 45 minutes to 1 hour away. Oakland International Airport (OAK) is 1 hour to 1:15 away.
Questions: If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Parys Zambas at parys@innovationleader.com.
Sponsor Impact
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities at Impact, or other Innovation Leader events, contact Alex Slawsby.
